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Barbara Kay: Supplanting literary classics with native literature is a disservice to students

  • November 6, 2019
Some years ago, the late, great writer George Jonas asked me about my intellectual influences. Who did I remember as especially formative? Oh, George Orwell, of course. I read Animal Farm in my mid...
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National Post

Barbara Kay: Svend Robinson’s return set to boost Israel hate in the NDP

  • January 29, 2019
He’s back! Svend Robinson will be the NDP candidate for Burnaby North-Seymour in this fall’s federal election. He looks good at 66, brimming with comeback vigour. His ostensible motivat...
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National Post

Barbara Kay: The euthanasia slippery slope is here

  • February 12, 2019
Last week marked the four-year anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that validated Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). At the time, many euthanasiasts confidently predicted that there would be n...
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National Post

Barbara Kay: The year I needed a Jewish institutional renewal

  • January 3, 2019
As a new year dawned, six National Post contributors shared something new they tried in 2018. Below, Barbara Kay takes a spiritual journey.For 46 years our family belonged to a synagogue aligned wi...
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National Post

Barbara Kay: Universities shine a light on Ontario’s failing schools

  • April 30, 2019
A new study, ”Academic Skill Deficiencies in four Ontario universities,” offers solid, but troubling evidence that the secondary schools feeding universities are falling well short of e...
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National Post

Barbara Kay: What are dogs for? To be waited upon by their humans, of course

  • September 10, 2019
It startled me to learn last week that Christie Blatchford’s beloved English bull terrier, Obie, had died at a ripe old age. Seems but a few years ago she informed readers of his acquisition ...
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National Post

Barbara Kay: What the anglo media misses about Quebec’s religious law

  • April 2, 2019
Quebec’s newly tabled law, “An Act respecting the laicity of the State,” will be sent to committee for study, and with the help of the notwithstanding clause, will pass as written. T...
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National Post

Barbara Kay: When gender identity education and theory goes wrong

  • June 25, 2019
In his recent commentary in these pages on the risks associated with the teaching of gender theories to elementary schoolchildren, Jordan Peterson referenced a column I wrote in another publication...
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National Post

Barbara Kay: When pit bull defenders attack

  • March 26, 2019
“Politics is downstream from culture,” Andrew Breitbart famously said. Rather less famously, but persistently, this columnist has always maintained that dog politics (which arouses more...
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National Post

Barbara Kay: Why Quebec’s immigration and secularism bills get it right

  • June 18, 2019
Quebec’s Bill 21 is finally law. Premier François Legault’s government invoked premature closure to end fierce debate over the weekend, and it passed 73-35, the Parti Québ&ea...
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National Post

Bill 21 is not the problem critics think it is

  • April 7, 2019
Bill 21, “An act respecting the laicity of the state,” is ramping up for passage in Quebec. It will impose complete neutrality with regard to religion-signalling on the province’s public servant...
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The Post Millennial

Canada’s marijuana laws are all about Trudeau’s hipster legacy

  • August 2, 2019
Canada was the second country in the world to legalize marijuana (Uruguay was the first). The legalizing act calls it “cannabis” of course. So much more genteel than marijuana, eh? “Cannabis” ...
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The Post Millennial

Canadian sports “experts” embrace misogynist practices to please trans activists­

  • February 26, 2019
Months ago, I tweeted that sports would be “where the rubber hits the road” on deference to trans ideology, because affirmation in sport of biological males who identify as women cannot co-exist i...
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The Post Millennial

City of Edmonton shuts down pro-life group’s plans for the second time

  • October 11, 2019
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), on whose board I sit, offers pro bono legal services to individuals or groups whose Charter rights the JCCF agrees have been breached. They have ...
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The Post Millennial

Climate hypocrisy rules the day with jet-setting liberal influencers

  • October 31, 2019
Polls show that people are a lot more concerned about climate change than they used to be. But are they responding to actual evidence of climate change, or the constant harangues at them by Chicken Li...
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The Post Millennial

Common Sense Should Prevail in Criminal Sentencing of Minorities

  • September 16, 2019
Kevin Morris, a 26-year old black man, was raised by a single mother in a tough Toronto neighbourhood. Having twice endured knife violence in youth, he was eventually diagnosed with PTSD and par...
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The Epoch Times

Destructive Legacy of the Left

  • January 12, 2019
Below is Barbara Kay's review of David Horowitz's new book, “Ruling Ideas," which is the ninth and final volume of The Black Book of the American Left, a multi-volume collection o...
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FrontpageMag

Do We Now Have Social Classes of Hate Killers?

  • December 17, 2019
On Dec 10, religious fanatics Francine Graham and David Anderson went on a bloody rampage in Jersey City, New Jersey. It began in a cemetery where they opened fire on Detective Joseph Seals, a ...
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The Epoch Times

Educational Earthquake: ‘Disappearing’ the Great Writers From Schools

  • November 18, 2019
The Greater Essex County District School Board in the Windsor, Ont., area is supplanting its grade 11 literature curriculum, which up to now has featured great writers of the western canon such ...
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The Epoch Times

Educator profiles female Jewish pioneers who changed the world

  • August 29, 2019
Janice Baryshnik of Toronto is a psychologist and an educator. Helping adolescents reach their potential has been the focus of her career for 30 years. A deeply committed Jew, Baryshnik found inspirat...
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